Date:	Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:12:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To:	Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Subject: Re: patch: reiserfs for 2.3.49



On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> 
> Can you run _all_ of the above at the same time on a a large machine
> will gobs and ram and multiple processors? With the file
> creation/deletion -- are you doing this to the same directories from
> multiple threads at once?

Now, now, don't be too harsh on the resierfs guys.

Do we suddenly expect code to be bug-free before inclusion into the
kernel?

For rather obvious PR reasons I'd love to say "yes, we have a journalling
filesystem these days" as part of the 2.4.x release stuff, so it does fall
under the "drivers so cool that they might make it into 2.4.x". I don't
think I want to see the read_inode() changes, though, that's just too
ugly. I may like the PR angle of reiserfs, but that doesn't mean that I'd
forget about things like these completely.

But it looks to me as if the read_inode thing plus a few cleanups in
raiserfs to take into account that the VFS layer does more these days
would certainly make it a candidate for inclusion. Maybe not 2.4.0, but
during 2.4.x. Don't be so down on the guys, there are people who really
like actively using raiserfs..

		Linus


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